Hmm money between products, money inside products. I don't know if I would have come forward until after the promotion was over. Now that the news is out you are just going to get fiends opening up all sorts of products and generally creating a mess of the aisles to find free money. If anything I can see stores not wanting this promotion to take place in their businesses, this pay it forward model is anything but that for the stores/workers themselves.

If people are worried about why it is there, they may bring it to a store's customer service, or to cops, and then there's a good chance they'd not get it back. Unfortunately, that penalizes the most honest finders. Then, the media attention from the odd circumstances may cause people to rummage through things and generally make messes wherever money has been found... especially since one of the spots apparently had two separate bills.

If they'd just left a note, and they didn't have to name who they were unless they wanted to, it probably would go better. It would have also been a better idea not to leave them in merchandise - especially food. There are many places they could be left which people wouldn't wreck searching.

I'd just hate to see the chaos that erupts from packs of people toting along their crotch goblin herd whist tearing through box after box of items looking for free money. I can just picture cartons of eggs smashed everywhere, coffee canisters spilled all over the aisles, boxed of cookies dumped all over the floor. Yeah, I don't think I would want people to hide money in my store.

If people are worried about why it is there, they may bring it to a store's customer service, or to cops, and then there's a good chance they'd not get it back. Unfortunately, that penalizes the most honest finders. Then, the media attention from the odd circumstances may cause people to rummage through things and generally make messes wherever money has been found... especially since one of the spots apparently had two separate bills.

If they'd just left a note, and they didn't have to name who they were unless they wanted to, it probably would go better. It would have also been a better idea not to leave them in merchandise - especially food. There are many places they could be left which people wouldn't wreck searching.

Do you actually mean that a radio station may be running a poorly thought out promotion? Really? I for one am shocked SHOCKED to find this going on in an arena that has never before done any dangerous, stupid, damaging events.

Actually they aren't opening the packages, nor damaging the packaging.Whomever it is, are putting it between the reusable lids, and the tamperproof packaging, or other locations that keep it hidden from general view, but doesn't affect the food in any way.

Example, Hershey's chocolate syrup (I know, not food/chocolate etc.) has a yellow lid, and then a sealed tamperproof secondary cover. The bills were between the yellow lid and the secondary cover. For a box of chocolate cookies, they opened the outside box, but put the moneybetween the box and the sealed celophane tamper evident wrapper.

So no one was at risk of anything, except possibly having $100.00 more in their pocket when they got home.

Other evidence that the Waltons aren't putting the money in the product containers between external packaging and tamper evident seals, was that there were an equal number of $100 bills found at the Fred Meyer store in Salem as well.

Acravius:Actually they aren't opening the packages, nor damaging the packaging.Whomever it is, are putting it between the reusable lids, and the tamperproof packaging, or other locations that keep it hidden from general view, but doesn't affect the food in any way.

Example, Hershey's chocolate syrup (I know, not food/chocolate etc.) has a yellow lid, and then a sealed tamperproof secondary cover. The bills were between the yellow lid and the secondary cover. For a box of chocolate cookies, they opened the outside box, but put the moneybetween the box and the sealed celophane tamper evident wrapper.

So no one was at risk of anything, except possibly having $100.00 more in their pocket when they got home.

But...but.. my condescension and snark... you've just made it unwarranted! How dare you use your critical thinking skills and common sense to do that?!?

Acravius:Actually they aren't opening the packages, nor damaging the packaging.Whomever it is, are putting it between the reusable lids, and the tamperproof packaging, or other locations that keep it hidden from general view, but doesn't affect the food in any way.

Example, Hershey's chocolate syrup (I know, not food/chocolate etc.) has a yellow lid, and then a sealed tamperproof secondary cover. The bills were between the yellow lid and the secondary cover. For a box of chocolate cookies, they opened the outside box, but put the moneybetween the box and the sealed celophane tamper evident wrapper.

So no one was at risk of anything, except possibly having $100.00 more in their pocket when they got home.

The pictures show that on some of them... but the cookies were bakery cookies, and they are not sealed in plastic inside. The picture is one of those flimsy cardboard boxes with the little windows in them. In one of the videos in a linked article, the guy points out how he tilted the boxes to look for the money through the plastic window, in with the cookies, then the reporter goes and demonstrates looking for more on the shelves.

Even if it had been a normal commercial package, and one that had cardboard over the plastic rather than just plastic, you usually have to tear open the cardboard to do something like that.

It does look like most of the packaging in various pictures was undisturbed, but not all of it.... and the customers looking for more will probably not be as gentle. Even if they did possibly disturb some of the food, I doubt the customer buying that particular box would complain, unless it were a $100 box of cookies.